After participants marched down Reeves Street in Port Hawkesbury on June 13, they returned to the front of the Port Hawkesbury Civic Centre to kneel for eight minutes and 43 seconds, the same amount of time a former Minneapolis police officer knelt on the neck of George Floyd last month. Floyd later died in hospital.

STRAIT AREA: A pair of events in Inverness County continued the global call for change in the wake of George Floyd’s death while in police custody. On June 13, Port Hawkesbury hosted a Black Lives Matter Rally and March which was attended by over 100 people. Photo by Jake BoudrotThe Black Lives Matter Rally and…

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